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Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Books: “Let The Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty” by Robert Dunham by Robert Dunham, Death Penalty Information Center In his new book, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, journalist Maurice Chammah presages the death of America’s capital …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Secrecy Surrounded Flurry of Late-Term Federal Executions Under Donald Trump by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Many troubling details surround the 13 executions carried out by the Department of Justice in the final months of the Trump administration, including allegations that the drug used, pentobarbital, caused intense pain and suffering …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Inside Trump and Barr’s Last-Minute Killing Spree by Isaac Arnsdorf Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications. ProPublica obtained court records showing how the outgoing administration used its final days to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II. by Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, Dec. 23, …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Sequel: Three Additional Federal Executions Before Trump Left Office by Chad Marks by Chad Marks As detailed in this month’s cover story, former President Trump and Attorney General Barr were responsible for a spree of federal executions during their final months in office. But the ProPublica cover story was written …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Death Penalty
Analysis: Federal Executions in Indiana Became ‘Super-Spreader’ Events by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna It seems inconceivable that prison personnel selected to carry out the ultimate judicial sanction – execution — would willfully violate Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and expose themselves, their families, prisoners and staff, clergy, …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Sixth Circuit Holds Ohio Prisoner Can Be Executed Despite Previous Botched Attempt by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 23, 2020, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an Ohio prisoner could be executed despite a previous botched attempt. Romell Broom was taken to the Ohio execution chamber …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
Missouri Executes Prisoner During COVID-19 Crisis by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Whenever the subject of the death penalty comes up, people usually think of Texas, the capital of capital punishment in the United States. [PLN, November 2018, p. 15] However, even the death merchants in the nation’s most carceral, …
Pennsylvania Prisoner Off Death Row After 33 Years by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A Pennsylvania prisoner whose death sentence was tossed by a federal court 17 years ago has finally won release from the state’s death row after spending more than three decades in solitary confinement there. In …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
COVID-19 Deaths in Jails, Prisons Exceed Number of Deaths by Execution From 1990 to Present by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in jails and prisons across the county. The number of virus-related prisoner deaths reached 1,453 on November 17, 2020. This number exceeds the 1,406 …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Alabama Executes Non-Shooter in Police Killings by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The death penalty is advocated both for punishing the most atrocious cases of murder and for its alleged deterrent effect. Yet on March 5, 2020, Alabama executed a 44-year-old man, not for committing murder but instead because …
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
From Super Villain to Super Man, Tennessee Prisoner Still Executed by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Born in 1972, Tennessean Nicholas Sutton suffered a life straight out of a 5-star horror movie. His father was a mentally ill drug abuser and his mother abandoned him to the not­so-tender mercies of …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Filed under: Death Penalty
Gallup Poll Shows Growing Opposition to Death Penalty by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney A Gallup poll revealed that 60% of Americans believe that life in prison without parole is a better approach for a murder conviction than the death penalty. The poll was cited in the Death Penalty Information …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Innocence Project Working to Prove Arkansas Executed Innocent Man by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On January 23, 2020, the family of an Arkansas man who was executed three years earlier, filed a lawsuit to obtain evidence from the scene of the murder for which he was convicted, hoping to …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Precedential Settlement Eliminates Solitary Confinement on Pennsylvania’s Death Row by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) has agreed to operate a Capital Case Unit (CCU) “as a general population unit that exclusively houses prisoners sentenced to death.” That change in conditions is part of …
Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020
Death Penalty Prosecution in Colorado Costs State Over $1.6 Million, Ends in Life Sentence by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  After spending seven years and more than $1.6 million seeking the death penalty for a prisoner who killed a Colorado prison guard, prosecutors plea-bargained the case for a life sentence. …
Solitary Confinement for Former Death Row Prisoner Held Unconstitutional by David M. Reutter by David M. Reutter A Connecticut federal district court held on August 27, 2019 that a former death row prisoner who was kept in solitary confinement had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. The court issued …
Article • December 11, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Project Hope Fights to End the Death Penalty ... from Death Row by Bill Barton by Bill Barton The executive director of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty, Esther Brown, is a former psychiatric social worker who has been called “the most loyal person I’ve ever met” by a …
Article • December 10, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Fourth Circuit Agrees Virginia’s Death Row Conditions Violated Eighth Amendment by Scott Grammer by Scott Grammer Almost 120 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the harm that solitary confinement causes. Prior to 2015, prisoners on Virginia’s death row were housed in solitary in 71-square-foot cells (about the size of …
Article • December 9, 2019 • from PLN December, 2019
Local Taxpayers Face Higher Taxes, Crime Rates Due to Death Penalty Trials by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Taxpayers in Texas counties where death penalty cases are held get hit with a double whammy: Not only do they face higher property taxes to pay for the trials, they also have …
Article • November 6, 2019 • from PLN November, 2019
Federal Prisoner Challenges Constitutionality of Death Penalty; Gets Plea Deal for Life Without Parole by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 28, 2018, a Vermont federal judge approved a plea bargain to grant life without parole to a death-sentenced federal prisoner who had challenged the constitutionality of the death …
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